Sacramento Kings general manager Vlade Divac answers questions concerning the decision to fire coach Dave Joerger, Thursday, April 11, 2019, in Sacramento, Calif. Divac said he had been contemplating the decision to change coaches for a while and ultimately made it after the NBA basketball team stumbled to the finish with a 9-16 record after the All-Star break. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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While most teams entered Tuesday night's NBA Draft Lottery with hopes of moving up to select Duke star Zion Williamson, the Sacramento Kings left having shut the door on one of the more bone-headed trades in league history.

The Kings didn't have a shot at Williamson, or any lottery-bound pick, for that matter. Instead, they entered the night set to convey its pick to either the Boston Celtics or Philadelphia 76ers to fulfill its obligations of a 2015 trade that sent Carl Landry, Jason Thompson and former lottery pick Nik Stauskas to Philadelphia in a move to create cap space to sign free agents. The 76ers traded that pick with top-one protection to Boston in 2017 for the rights to select Markelle Fultz at No. 1. The 76ers would get the pick if it landed at No. 1, otherwise it would go to the Celtics.

The pick landed at No. 14, and therefore will be conveyed to the Celtics.

Sacramento will be without a first-round pick for the first time since 2003, and won't be picking in the top 10 for the first time in the last decade.

The NBA Draft Lottery, held Tuesday night, is the annual event in which the bottom 14 teams in the league are entered into a drawing to decide the draft order. This was the first year for the league's more flattened out lottery odds. The Kings' pick was slotted at 14, with a 1 percent chance of moving up to No. 1 overall and a 4.8 percent chance of landing in the top four. The Charlotte Hornets at No. 12 and Miami Heat at No. 13 also shared the same odds, and similarly their draft position did not change.

The New Orleans Pelicans won the lottery, moving up six spots to the top selection. The Memphis Grizzlies, New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers round out the top five, followed by the Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls, Atlanta Hawks, Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks (whose pick will convey to Atlanta) and Minnesota Timberwolves.

Despite not having a first round pick, the Kings will have three second-round selections they acquired via trades: Minnesota's 40th overall pick, Orlando's 47th and Milwaukee's 60th pick. Sacramento also owes its own second rounder (No. 42) to Philadelphia.

The original sin -- trading this year's unprotected pick -- was widely panned at the time as a terrible deal by then-first year executive Vlade Divac. With the newly created cap space, the Kings signed Rajon Rondo, Marco Belinelli and Kosta Koufos in hopes of building a playoff team around DeMarcus Cousins. Instead, the Kings won 33 games.

Rondo lasted one season in Sacramento and Belinelli was traded (for the 22nd pick) a year later. Koufos is a free agent this summer. The trade was an unmitigated disaster.

Divac and the Kings have since moved on from Cousins and launched into a rebuild centered around point guard De'Aaron Fox and forward Marvin Bagley III. Unfortunately, they won't have another lottery pick to add to a talented group that finished nine games out of a playoff spot last season.

After Tuesday night, Divac and the Kings can move on with a somewhat clearer conscious knowing that pick didn’t end up at No. 1.